Home > New Mexico > Dulce vicinity > Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM
B&W Photos
HB850783
BWPhotos 381149
| 
HB850784
BWPhotos 381150
| 
HB850785
BWPhotos 381151
| 
HB850786
BWPhotos 381152
|
HB850787
BWPhotos 381153
| 
HB850788
BWPhotos 381154
| 
HB850789
BWPhotos 381155
| 
HB850790
BWPhotos 381156
|
HB850791
BWPhotos 381157
| 
HB850792
BWPhotos 381158
| 
HB850793
BWPhotos 381159
| 
HB850794
BWPhotos 381160
|
HB850795
BWPhotos 381161
| 
HB850796
BWPhotos 381162
|
Drawings
Item Title
LocationFrances Canyon Rincon,
Dulce vicinity, NM
Find maps of Dulce, NM
Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NM-155
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N559).
Building/structure dates:
1720 initial construction
Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Northern Rio Grande. When the Spanish regained control in 1692, many Pueblo groups fled westward to seek refuge with the Navajo. This period is called the Gobernador Phase by archeologists. Excavations at Frances uncovered copper bells, European trade beads, a bone whistle, Spanish tack ornaments, a metal cross, and weaving tools. The structure originally contained twenty-three ground-floor rooms. Structural features include viga and latilla roofs, loopholes, loom fittings, peg holes, plastered walls, and hooded fireplaces. The structure's tower sits on the sandstone edge of a mesa overlooking Frances Creek tributary. The Pueblito's defensive nature is demonstrated in its location along a mesa edge. In the tower's small downward-slanted openings for lookouts, and in a first-floor defensively placed trap doorway. This doorway made unwanted entry to the upper rooms impossible. Tree-ring dates suggest the site was occupied in the latter half of the Gobernador phase, probably between A.D. 1720 and 1750.
Subjects
ArchaeologyIndians Of North AmericaRuins
Related Names
Navajo Indians
Pueblo Indians
Fosberg, Stephen, Field Team
Jacobson, Louann, Field Team
Botsford, Manton, Field Team
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Goodard, Roger R., Delineator
Miller, Evan E., Delineator
Shaw, Rodney B., Delineator
Metzinger, Mira D., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Back to Dulce vicinity, New Mexico
Cart